Posted on 07/17/2018 3:51:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
LAS VEGAS -- MGM Resorts International has sued hundreds of victims of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in a bid to avoid liability for the gunfire that rained down from its Mandalay Bay casino-resort in Las Vegas.
The company argues in lawsuits filed Friday in Nevada and California that it has "no liability of any kind" to survivors or families of slain victims under a federal law enacted after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The lawsuits target victims who have sued the company and voluntarily dismissed their claims or have threatened to sue after a gunman shattered the windows of his Mandalay Bay suite and fired on a crowd gathered below for a country music festival.
High-stakes gambler Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and injured hundreds more last year before killing himself. Victims with active lawsuits against MGM don't face the company's legal claim.
MGM says the 2002 law limits liabilities when a company or group uses services certified by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and mass attacks occur. The company says it is not liable because its security vendor for the concert, Contemporary Services Corp., was federally certified at the time of the Oct. 1 shooting.
MGM claims the victims -- through actual and threatened lawsuits -- have implicated CSC's services because they involve concert security, including training, emergency response and evacuation.
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It was a Deep State assasination gone wrong. They couldn’t kill the Saudi prince, or President Trump (who had secretly flown into an airport near Vegas to meet with the Saudis), so they opened up on the crowd instead as a “distraction.” Mass murder, to cover their tracks.
The government Obama racket fix is in: use our bull sht certification and you are protected from liability
What a bunch of fascist horsesht
I would say them getting entitled federal certs makes them even more liable. They cannot have it both ways
Do you have any sources for that claim? Inquiring out of curiosity.
Yeah, too many enabling actors getting protection ahead here.
Maybe all I need is a federal corn flakes box certificate and no one can sue me for bad things like a shooting.
Wonder if that would have flown had the revellers been BLM musicians and the shooter an angry KkK dismissed cop
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Not sure about his claim, but someone has fixed it so no civil suit investigation could go on. Remember, Obama did not want his Saudi terrorists sued
This was totally pre-fixed
How the hell could anyone be liable until we have more information out on what really happened ?
It was a Deep State assasination gone wrong.....IRANIAN. Obama. Brennan. Valjaar.
These reports really should say countersues to be fully informative.
It definitely does not pass the smell test.
Can you provide corroboration on Trump and the Saudi prince?
Except that this was NOT a “terror attack” and has not been labeled as such by the FBI.
This was an act of mass murder by a psychopath who, dulled from reality by the anti depression medications he had been taking, was seeking one final “thrill” that his compulsive gambling and other “cheap thrill” lifestyle choices could no longer provide him.*
Nothing - ZERO - has been found to indicate any political motive - hence the attack cannot meet the legal definition of a terror attack under Federal law. The hotel will therefore not be able to invoke the liability bar provided by the same Federal law. The act of suing the victims is so repugnant that the gut feeling that I got was that they deserved to go bankrupt. In any event - a very, VERY “bad look” by the hotel.
*This circumstantial analysis, based on available evidence, was the theory voiced by Scott Adams in the days after the tragedy. I have seen nothing that sounds more credible to date.
You have to admit, as soon as the story started to fall apart, it got buried el pronto.
Plenty of people on and off the Internet agree with your skepticism.
Regardless of the law, this move won’t endear MGM Resorts to customers who hear about it, although most won’t.
So has the FBI given you a report or something? Maybe you could share it with the rest of us.
There are way more questions than answers about the shooting.
Wrong. Fake News. By You
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/las-vegas-shooting/mandalay-bay-owner-files-complaint-against-victims-las-vegas-shooting-n892081
What a bunch of fascist horsesht
I would say them getting entitled federal certs makes them even more liable. They cannot have it both ways
GOP had control of the Executive and both houses of Congress in 2002 when this law was passed, so the racket certainly isn't Obama's. Best the scales fall now than never.
“The lawsuits target victims who have sued the company and voluntarily dismissed their claims or have threatened to sue...”
I hardly think this company would even know whom to sue otherwise.
Unbelievable
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